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Quoting: Luke_NukemThat's not true. They pushed to put all the new Quake 2 game sources under GPL to ensure that other engines can use it, and wrote extensive docs.

No. That is nothing. It's what they need so that mods can be ported over to get any content, so they had no choice.

I don't know what your point is then. You say they gave nothing back - except they did.

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Quoting: Talon1024I was a bit miffed about the Nightdive remasters of Quake and Quake 2 because they gave nothing back to the Open Source Quake/Quake 2 engine projects. Thankfully, this doesn't seem to be the case for their Dark Forces remaster:

QuoteNight Dive will also be helping me to support the new content they are creating in TFE - though you will be required to purchase the new version of Dark Forces in order to use that content.

That's not true. They pushed to put all the new Quake 2 game sources under GPL to ensure that other engines can use it, and wrote extensive docs.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksMan, Quake II RTX has native Linux support. Why can't this or Portal? Half-Life 2 and Portal already have native Linux versions. I don't know how modding works internally. But doesn't that automatically help make it possible? </3

Because it is using RTX-remix, it's not being done in source code.

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i love this game. But the static bodies of water is just... weird and unnatural. It makes all the planets that may have a similar composition to earth feel completely lifeless.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe.
Don’t even get me started on the people trying to claim things were good pre-Steam 🤣

Come now... We had Doom 1+2+3 and Quake 1+2+3+4. Linux gaming was great!

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There's a huge amount of value-add in this. And yes all models were updated from the old vertex animations to skeletal animation - which removes the vertex-jumping you used to see.

Read the linked beths page for more info.

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Voxels are the perfect way to enhance older sprite based games.

But.... I also wonder what effect raytracing could have too.

Quoting: axredneckI don't thing these sector-based games will look good with ray tracing

Pretty sure it'd be fine with engines that convert the maps to full 3d polygonal environments. But yeah I guess lighting would need some thought since a sector doesn't translate to distance very well and there isn't much in the way of objects that could be used as light sources.

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Voxels are the perfect way to enhance older sprite based games.

But.... I also wonder what effect raytracing could have too.

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We already have bgfx and wgpu..

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Maybe we should start saying they dropped Native Steam Deck support instead.

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